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The Spell of Conan
1980
First Published
3.52
Average Rating
244
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Contents: “Swordsmen and Sorcerers at Play” (Lin Carter) “Skald in the Post Oaks” (L. Sprague de Camp) “Howard’s Style” (Fritz Leiber) “The Ghost of Camp Colorado” (Robert E. Howard) “Conan’s Ghost” (L. Sprague de Camp) “Untitled Fragment” (“The wind from…”) (Robert E. Howard) “The Trail of Tranicos” (L. Sprague de Camp) “Balthus of Cross Plains” (George H. Scithers) “Something About Eve” (Robert E. Howard) “The Testament of Snefru” (John Boardman) “The Lion’s Bridge” (Ray Capella) “When Set Fled” (Fritz Leiber) “Eddison’s Zimiamvian Trilogy” (Robert E. Briney) “Conan’s Great-Grandfather” (L. Sprague de Camp) “The Dying Earth” (Robert E. Briney) “Pratt’s Parallel Worlds” (L. Sprague de Camp) “Of Worms and Unicorns” (David Hulan) “Knights and Knaves in Neustria” (L. Sprague de Camp) “Fafhrd and Me” (Fritz Leiber) “Conan’s Imitators” (L. Sprague de Camp) “The Thong of Thor” (John Boardman) “Woe is Me” (Avram Davidson) “Transposition” (L. Sprague de Camp) “Thoth-Amon’s Complaint” (L. Sprague de Camp) “The Gray Mouser 1” (Fritz Leiber) “The Gray Mouser 2” (Fritz Leiber) “Precursors and Prototypes: 1. Pirettes” (L. Sprague de Camp) “Precursors and Prototypes: 2. The Insidious Doctor Conan” (L. Sprague de Camp) “Precursors and Prototypes: 3. The Conans of Albion” (L. Sprague de Camp) “Who Were the AEsir?” (Poul Anderson) “Howard and the Celts” (L. Sprague de Camp) “Who Was Crom?” (Albert E. Gechter) “Conan and Matho” (L. Sprague de Camp) “John Carter: Sword of Theosophy” (Fritz Leiber) “Conan and Pizarro” (L. Sprague de Camp) “Lord of the Black Throne” (P. Schuyler Miller) “The Heroic Barbarian” (L. Sprague de Camp)

Avg Rating
3.52
Number of Ratings
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Author

L. Sprague de Camp
L. Sprague de Camp
Author · 69 books
Lyon Sprague de Camp, (Pseudonym: Lyman R. Lyon) was an American science fiction and fantasy author and biographer. In a writing career spanning fifty years he wrote over one hundred books, including novels and notable works of nonfiction, such as biographies of other important fantasy authors. He was widely regarded as an imaginative and innovative writer and was an important figure in the heyday of science fiction, from the late 1930s through the late 1940s.
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